Louise de Montmorency

Louise de Montmorency (1496–1547) was a French aristocrat and courtier. She served as Première dame d'honneur to the queen of France, Eleanor of Austria, from 1530 to 1535. She also played an important role within patronage and as a supporter of Calvinism.

In 1530, she was appointed Première dame d'honneur to the new queen, a new court office installed just a few years earlier, which made her responsible for all of the other ladies-in-waiting of the queen and precedence as the first ranked lady-in-waiting of the French royal court. She retired in 1535 and was replaced by Mme de Givry.[1]

She had considerable patronage power independently of her husband,[2][3] and had an important role in spreading the influence of Calvinism in France in the 16th Century.[4]